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Night of the Living Dead ('68) Review (Archive)

Filmspotting

Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen

Film Reviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Just in time for Halloween, this week's archive episode is Adam and Josh's 2017 Sacred Cow review of George A. Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, a Top 10 Horror Movie of All Time for both. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What kind of a show are you guys putting on here today?

0:06.5

You're not interested in art?

0:07.6

No.

0:08.1

Now look, we're going to do this thing.

0:09.4

We're going to have a conversation.

0:13.1

Adam, I don't know if you've taken the time to do your top 10 horror films of all time

0:19.2

ranked list on letterboxed. Be curious to see that if you get to it,

0:23.3

but right now, still on my list right there. Holding Strong at number nine is George A. Romero's

0:31.4

Night of the Living Dead, a movie I love. It's spooky season. So a movie that perhaps some folks are revisiting or maybe watching for the first time. It's also a movie that we talked about in depth. We gave it a sacred cow review in 2017. And we're sharing it now. It's this week's from the archive selection Night of the Living

0:54.9

Dead. Yeah. Did you say number nine? Number nine on your list. Okay. I mean, it would

1:00.1

definitely be in my top 10. And quite frankly, it might be in my top five. It'd be in the running

1:06.2

with The Exorcist, which is also in our archive, episode 465, it'd be in the running with The Shining.

1:13.4

I think I like it more than The Shining.

1:15.0

That was episode 419.

1:17.4

It'd be in the conversation with Psycho.

1:19.9

That was episode 907.

1:21.7

I'm rounding out a pretty great top five list here, aren't I?

1:25.5

I just can't go with the Silence of the lambs as a horror movie.

1:30.9

I don't know why. We can debate this. You're opening a can of the time. Josh, we're not,

1:34.7

we're not going to debate. I'm not going to debate to Jerry. Okay. We're not going to debate that here.

1:39.5

But we talked about that movie on episode 814. Great movie.

1:45.0

But it just doesn't fit with the way I view horror.

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